How to unlock fast travel in Red Dead Redemption 2

Red Dead Redemption 2's fast travel system is well worth the effort required to unlock it, so here's what you need to do

Cantering along on horseback in Red Dead Redemption 2 is probably one of the most chilled out, relaxing gaming activities available. Sometimes though, you want to dart from one mission to the next. While you can't fast travel to wherever you want, Red Dead Redemption 2 fast travel is available with some limitations and unexplained mechanics. Here's how you unlock fast travel in Red Dead Redemption 2.

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To even get the opportunity to unlock fast travel, you’ll first need to complete Red Dead Redemption 2’s lengthy prologue, and reach the point where your gang has settled at camp and the open world has become available to explore in its entirety. This’ll allow you to upgrade your campsite with new features and progress markers, one of which is the option to unlock the travel map at Arthur’s lodge.

This can be accessed in the Ledger, which is introduced to you upon completing the first tax collection mission for Leopold Strauss, and found next to the donation box by Dutch’s tent. However, you’ll first need to upgrade Dutch’s tent for $220 on page six in the ledger, under Lodging, before you can even see the option to purchase fast travel. Do that, and the travel map will become available to purchase for $325 underneath the header titled “Next in Line.”

Once you’ve purchased the Red Dead Redemption 2 fast travel system, you’ll be able to teleport to any major city or point of interest that you’ve previously discovered on your own, such as Valentine, Strawberry or, yes, the much talked about Blackwater, provided you’ve gained access to it on foot. The best part is that your horse will come with you whenever you fast travel into an area, carrying everything you’ve stowed in their saddle, but the system ain’t perfect.

While you can fast travel from your gang’s campsite to anywhere that allows it, you aren’t able to do the inverse. In other words, you can’t travel back to your campsite from anywhere else, so make sure you’re ready for a long trip back if Arthur fast travels to a location several miles away from his homestead.

You also can’t fast travel to a city that’s on lockdown, which is when you’ve committed enough crimes to have the entire local law enforcement ready to take Arthur out if he shows his face. Otherwise, there’s always the train or carriage, which similarly lets you quickly hop from place to place though, unlike fast travel, this comes at a price for every trip taken.